IDF spokesperson: The soldiers of the IDF, the Shin Bet and the Border Police carried out an operation tonight in the Noor al-Shams refugee camp under the command of the Menashe Brigade, destroying a explosives laboratory and confiscating over 30 weapons.
33 wanted persons were arrested throughout Judea and Samaria and in the Bekaa and Emekim division
IDF reserve fighters, including engineering forces, operated throughout the night together with the MGB and the Shin Bet in an operation to counter terrorism in the Nur al-Shams refugee camp under the command of the Menashe Brigade.
As part of the operation, engineering vehicles uncovered and destroyed charges under and on the sides of the roads intended to harm our forces.
In addition to the scans of the building, a explosives laboratory was located in which there were dozens of ready-to-use improvised explosives and materials for making explosives, which was destroyed.
In addition, more than 30 weapons, improvised rockets and other means of warfare were also found in the building and were confiscated. The suspect who was in the building where the laboratory and the weapons were located was arrested.
During the operation, armed men shot and threw explosives at the fighters who shot at them.
An IDF soldier was slightly injured as a result of being hit by shrapnel and sought medical treatment at a hospital, his family was informed.
Khaleda Jarrar, a wanted terrorist who serves as the head of the Popular Front in Judea and Samaria, was arrested in the city of Al Bira in the Binyamin Brigade, along with other senior Popular Front activists were arrested in the Ramallah Binyamin area. Among the prominent activists who were arrested - Rami Fadayil, Hasan Shatia and Rashad Karaga.
The wanted persons who were arrested and the weapons confiscated were transferred to the security forces for further treatment.
So far, since the beginning of the war, approximately 2,550 wanted persons have been arrested throughout the Judea and Samaria Division and the Bekaa and Valleys Division, approximately 1,300 of whom are associated with the terrorist organization Hamas.